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Looking for someone to chit chat with in Japanese? You've come to the right place! Below is a listing of people that would like to chat in Japanese. Please contact them, or if you can't find someone, post your own info! Please contact the person through PM, not in this thread
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Please use this thread to recommend study books and CDs (NOT music CDs) for studying Japanese. Do not spam this thread: only post if you are recommending something.
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Please use this thread to recommend sites for studying Japanese. Do not spam this thread: only post if you are recommending something.
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Content: (kanji, vocab lists, grammar, neat features etc)
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I was wondering if anyone would be willing to answer a few questions about the Japanese test?
In particular, on the transliteration part of the test, how are we supposed to transliterate the particles は, を, and へ, as well as the ん kana? Are thes particles supposed to be transliterated as they...

Hey all My name is Nikolay. I am currently working in Japan at a Japanese school called Wahaha Japanese language school(Yep thats it's name).
I would like to open this post for all who are considering studying Japanese but don't know how. People who studied not in Japan are also welcome! this way...

Does anyone know what the point of writing words in Katakana is when the words themselves are commonly written as Hiragana? I see it all the time, with the most common example I think would be kimi (君・キミ).

I went to japan and joined the Yakuzaz when i was in high school. They had me chatting writing rap songs and hanging out in no time. Anyone here gonna bring me back up to date with the slang in the japanese? I wanna speak this language again; I dont remember anything.
I knew a bunch of...

So, with my work we do a lot of mindless, repetitive work. We're aloud to have music playing with a headphone in to 'help pass the time'. Instead, I wanna use this time wisely and learn some Japanese. I'm wondering if anyone here may know of any good audio books or audio apps on the Android store I...

I've been working as an amateur manga translator for some time now, and I'm trying to find a way to work professionally. Does anyone know of any ways to get a starting level jo as a Japanese to English translator?

786 Okay, so it's like this. I was rewatching Hanasaku Iroha and my mum noticed that they refer to the manager as "Kamisama." I found this unlikely, but I paid attention and sure enough, they call her "kami" in all variations. O kami, Kami-san, Kami-sama, kami, kami, kami.
I thought they might...

I have been learning Japanese for 2 years now so I have no problem watching anime without subtitles. My favorite voice actress is Hayashibara Megumi. And I love reading manga as well. I can download raw anime/manga and other anime related contents(like drama cd) from Japanese websites, and I would...

Please come and download if you want to embarrass yourself in your office when your phone suddenly rings with an anime girl voice. :laugh:Just kidding. Use it in your private phone if you're an otaku like me.
Here are a few example:
1.The phone is ringing~ who's this guy??
電話だよー この人だれ？？
2....

I want to learn Japanese, but I have a few issues keeping me from doing so at the moment.
The first problem I have is that I do not learn well in a completely immersive environment. All the colleges I looked at have classes where the professor never speaks a word of English. For whatever reason,...

I'm going to be taking Japanese 1 next quarter :D but I'm just curious about what others felt about the class. How many semesters/quarters have you taken for Japanese? Did you like the class? Was it hard? etc, etc.

Ohayou! , first of all if this is seen as spam, i'm sorry, delete this post please.
We are a pair of programming students and japan freaks and we made a free app to learn/practise japanese by playing.
I would hate that people could see that as spam. I just wanted people to see my work ^^
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Trying to connect controllers so I can play public multiplayer from my computer, but whenever I try to save any settings, with or without them, I get these errors on top of eachother.
Not sure if anyone would bother with this, tried googling for hours, trying to search through forum thread...

I know about two, three kanji around half hirigana and a few words, how to introduce myself and that's all. If anyone is on that sort of level add me on skype or kik (My username is Capital1A) and my kik is the same

Anybody on these forums read Japanese? I have been translating game text, and it's pretty easy to guess with katakana text (it's just the Japanese spelling of their best pronunciation of English words, and each symbol just represents a specific sound). But this one piece of text has kanji in it,...

hey everyone
this is my first time in this forum,so "HI"!
i'm not sure i'm posting this in the right place(if not , sorry!)
there is this japanese rap songed by k dub shin and zeebra
i don't know song's name
and also i don't know japanese even a bit
so if you recognize the song please...